Sea Kale?
 

On Sun, 28 Dec 2003 16:55:50 GMT, Jaques d'Alltrades
wrote:

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(Jaques d'Alltrades) wrote:

I've picked it on the margins of the sea, but not grown it.

It is good-looking, it is delicious and it is very nutritious.

Did you pick and eat it from the wild (IE without forcing) and it was
delicious?

Picked it on the Sussex coast and the Essex coast, and yes, it was an
experience I want to repeat.

It grows amongst Chesil Bank like stones in Cote d'Amor, Brittany. I
never thought to pick or eat it. We were bloated with Fruits de Mer.
--
Martin

Sea Kale?
 

The message
from (Steve Harris) contains these words:
In article ,
(Jaques d'Alltrades) wrote:

I've picked it on the margins of the sea, but not grown it.

It is good-looking, it is delicious and it is very nutritious.

Did you pick and eat it from the wild (IE without forcing) and it was
delicious?

Picked it on the Sussex coast and the Essex coast, and yes, it was an
experience I want to repeat.

Also picked sea beet (Beta vulgaris subsp. maritima); hastate orache
(Atriplex hastata); glasswort (Salicornia several species); samphire
(Crithmum maritimum) - all delicious all in Essex. Oh, and wild
asparagus (Asparagus officinalis) during the war when I was rather
small, somewhere near Seaford: might have been Cuckmere Haven.

--
Rusty Hinge http://www.users.zetnet.co.uk/hi-fi/tqt.htm

Dark thoughts about the Wumpus concerto played with piano,
iron bar and two sledge hammers. (Wumpus, 15/11/03)

Sea Kale?
 

Jaques d'Alltrades wrote in message ...
The message
from (Steve Harris) contains these words:

Anyone grown (and eaten) this? Books and catalogues suggest it's
good-looking, delicious and not too difficult?

I've picked it on the margins of the sea, but not grown it.

It is good-looking, it is delicious and it is very nutritious.

I wouldn't think it is too difficult on a slightly alkaline soil.

There is confusion in this thread between seakale - crambe maritima -
and seakale beet. Seakale - crambe maritima - you blanch and eat the
roots of in january, pretty much like rhubarb. Seakale beet is a name
for a range of brassicas which have thick stems running along the
leaves, the stems being thought to ressemble seakale. Not just being
pedantic here - anyone who tries to eat the leaves of true seakale as
if it were a brassica is going to make himself rather unwell. they are
not poisonous but they are, according to christopher lloyd, seriously
inedible.

Sea Kale?
 

Jaques d'Alltrades wrote in message ...
The message
from (Steve Harris) contains these words:

Anyone grown (and eaten) this? Books and catalogues suggest it's
good-looking, delicious and not too difficult?

I've picked it on the margins of the sea, but not grown it.

It is good-looking, it is delicious and it is very nutritious.

I wouldn't think it is too difficult on a slightly alkaline soil.

There is confusion in this thread between seakale - crambe maritima -
and seakale beet. Seakale - crambe maritima - you blanch and eat the
roots of in january, pretty much like rhubarb. Seakale beet is a name
for a range of brassicas which have thick stems running along the
leaves, the stems being thought to ressemble seakale. Not just being
pedantic here - anyone who tries to eat the leaves of true seakale as
if it were a brassica is going to make himself rather unwell. they are
not poisonous but they are, according to christopher lloyd, seriously
inedible.

Sea Kale?
 

Jaques d'Alltrades wrote in message ...
The message
from (Steve Harris) contains these words:

Anyone grown (and eaten) this? Books and catalogues suggest it's
good-looking, delicious and not too difficult?

I've picked it on the margins of the sea, but not grown it.

It is good-looking, it is delicious and it is very nutritious.

I wouldn't think it is too difficult on a slightly alkaline soil.

There is confusion in this thread between seakale - crambe maritima -
and seakale beet. Seakale - crambe maritima - you blanch and eat the
roots of in january, pretty much like rhubarb. Seakale beet is a name
for a range of brassicas which have thick stems running along the
leaves, the stems being thought to ressemble seakale. Not just being
pedantic here - anyone who tries to eat the leaves of true seakale as
if it were a brassica is going to make himself rather unwell. they are
not poisonous but they are, according to christopher lloyd, seriously
inedible.

Sea Kale?
 

On Sun, 28 Dec 2003 16:55:50 GMT, Jaques d'Alltrades
wrote:

The message
from (Steve Harris) contains these words:
In article ,
(Jaques d'Alltrades) wrote:

I've picked it on the margins of the sea, but not grown it.

It is good-looking, it is delicious and it is very nutritious.

Did you pick and eat it from the wild (IE without forcing) and it was
delicious?

Picked it on the Sussex coast and the Essex coast, and yes, it was an
experience I want to repeat.

It grows amongst Chesil Bank like stones in Cote d'Amor, Brittany. I
never thought to pick or eat it. We were bloated with Fruits de Mer.
--
Martin

Sea Kale?
 

Jaques d'Alltrades wrote in message ...
The message
from (Steve Harris) contains these words:

Anyone grown (and eaten) this? Books and catalogues suggest it's
good-looking, delicious and not too difficult?

I've picked it on the margins of the sea, but not grown it.

It is good-looking, it is delicious and it is very nutritious.

I wouldn't think it is too difficult on a slightly alkaline soil.

There is confusion in this thread between seakale - crambe maritima -
and seakale beet. Seakale - crambe maritima - you blanch and eat the
roots of in january, pretty much like rhubarb. Seakale beet is a name
for a range of brassicas which have thick stems running along the
leaves, the stems being thought to ressemble seakale. Not just being
pedantic here - anyone who tries to eat the leaves of true seakale as
if it were a brassica is going to make himself rather unwell. they are
not poisonous but they are, according to christopher lloyd, seriously
inedible.